While what you've written is surely true, the problem is that there has to be some balance, in handicapping, between overall win percentage and volume. Taken to the absurd extreme, you could choose your Game of the Year, hope to win it, and then boast 100% winners, at 1-0!

Going 14-6 is quite wonderful, but playing a whole year of the NFL (almost five months) to generate (at -110) 7.4 winners averages to, well, 1.5 net winners per month. So, to make any serious money, you have to be betting huge amounts on each game, which, for some, may be problematic. And, of course, the variance is enormous.

The Westgate contest requires five picks per week, and, of course, although there are different winners each year, and last year's hero is this year's bum, the 2015 winner went 59-23 (for 33.7 net winners), picking 72.0%! The year before was even more remarkable, at 64-20 (42 net winners!) and 76.2%.

And yes, I know very well that they get to pick on Friday against Tuesday's lines, but that isn't what makes a guy go 76.2%!!

So, the bottom line is that, while one game per week is fun, and can be profitable, no one gets rich that way, even betting 10 dimes a game (last year would have grossed Sharky $1,300 for five months' work), so don't quit your day job. 64-20 at $10K per game? Well, that's an entirely different story! :-)

Just sayin'.

Don